RFID MythBusting

DEF CON 17

Presented by: Dr. Thomas J. Holt
Date: Saturday August 01, 2009
Time: 12:00 - 12:50
Location: Track 1
Track: Track 1

This presentation is about challenging many of the popular preconceptions about RFID technology. "Short-range" will be shot down first (I'm aiming to set a half-mile world record in the Nevada desert just before Defcon), "secure" will be busted second (don't bring any RFID tags unless you want them cloned), "immune to electromagnetic pulse weaponry" will fall last (and hopefully most spectacularly). I'll be covering a wide range of different RFID technologies from 125KHz to 900MHz, and releasing a whole pile of source code, schematics, and (with luck) a little magic smoke.

Kristin Paget

Undeterred by his previous legal skirmishes, <strong>Chris Paget</strong> is still having fun playing with magnetic fields and RFID. If you see a tall guy wandering around the con with long hair, high heels, and a pile of home-made RF hardware, there's a good chance that a) it's him, and b) your RFID cards have just been cloned.


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